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The Baltimore City Student Attendance Work Group. Building Innovative Partnerships for Student Success. Coalition for Community Schools 2010 National Forum. Thursday April 8, 2010. A Collaborative Effort . Work Group Co-Chairs:

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Collecting and Monitoring Data On Chronic absence

Attendance is tracked daily and in secondary schools by class in Baltimore City

Attendance data is uploaded to the principal’s dashboard weekly

Principals have access to an alert list of students on track to becoming chronically absent, a list of students who were chronically absent in the prior school year, and the school’s chronic absence rate as compared to its own rate in the prior school year

The role of Community Schools In Helping to Address Chronic Absence

Agree that an accountability outcome will be improved student attendance

Through a team approach create attendance targets based on the data either for the school as a whole or for sub populations of students

Determine the number of students that Community School providers will work to serve

Determine how the work will be measured

Record Community Schools efforts to improve attendance

Tiered Strategies to Improve Attendance

Tier 1 – Universal Strategies (for all students)

Establish a school-going culture including. response to each absence, welcoming back absent students, communicating the importance of regular attendance to the home.

Utilize Global Connect or make phone calls home after each absence

Offer classroom attendance incentives for improved good attendance

Utilize school attendance incentives such as attendance ceremonies, special trips for high attenders and rewarding parents whose children regularly attend

Tiered Strategies to Improve Attendance

Tier 2 – Intervention Strategies (for students who miss 5 or more days of school)

Refer a student with attendance problems to the SST including all of the adults who touch the child’s life (e.g. school nurse, after school providers, and the community schools coordinator.)

Assign special activities to increase at risk student’s feeling of belonging

Develop attendance plan with student & parents

Provide the family with an alarm clock

Refer to programs like Truancy Court or B-SMART

Tiered Strategies to Improve Attendance

Tier 3 – Recovery Strategies (for students who are missing at least 10% of their days on role)

Involve external partners in the provision of needed services such as mental health providers

Conduct a home visit

Refer the student to the Attendance Office

District Systems Reforms Affecting Attendance

Reforming school suspension policy

Reducing the number of school transitions by creating schools grades k-8 and 6-12

Increasing student and family options by creating and supporting innovation, contract, charter and transformation schools

Results to Date

% Missing 20 or More Days of School

Results To Date

% Missing Fewer than 5 Days

Reflections

Everything matters a little bit.

So little attention has been paid to attendance that there are many no- or low-cost interventions that can be put in place.